Great Britain: The Smell of Treason

Since a homosexual Admiralty clerk
named John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in prison last month for
selling secrets to the Russians, the House of Commons has buzzed with
rumors that the case might involve the government in the biggest
scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week
the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded
in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused
of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan.